Emergent leadership: is e-leadership importance in the quality of virtual education?

Abstract

In the last years, the school management systems have become an important tool for the efficacy of the e-leader. These systems emphasize an information and e-communication flow between all organization departments. The aim of this study is to emphasize how the new technologies can help the teachers. Also, the use of the information and communication in schools and the future of the teaching regarding to the new functions and roles of the teachers in the next stage of distance education is analyzed. The e-leader or e-mentor is specifically studied. This paper defines and analyzes a new emergent paradigm of leadership. The leadership that has arisen more than one decade ago. Special attention to the next topics is paid: The first section is a wide review of the theoretical framework in order to understand this new way of work related to the tutors and the leader in the virtual environment, also, the literature to construct a global comprehension of what constitutes the e-leadership in the organizations is reviewed. The second section analyzes the main strengths and skills of the e-leader and his importance in the distance education management. We focus on the delimitation of dimensions to characterize the different types of virtual teams. Finally, the general question which guides this research is: Will the virtual leadership bring along with it a real progress for the e-education? We live in the e-generation.

Keywords

• Distance education
• leadership
• virtual environments
• web based instruction.